Top-seeded stars in the male and female categories of the Nigeria Open yesterday made their way to the next round of the championship at the Molade Okoya Thomas Hall of the Teslim Balogun Stadium, Surulere.

In the female category, No 1 ranked Portugal’s Shao Jieni showed no mercy to Nigeria’s Janet Effiom 4-1 to advance to the next round. Other qualifiers include Chramko Olga who submitted to the firepower of Edem Offiong 0-4.

In the Women’s Doubles, the pair of Funke Oshonaike and Sarah Hanffou beat Russia’s Garnova and Tatiana Rossikhina Anna 3-0, while Akpan Cecilia and Edem Offiong lost to the pair of Russia’s Irina Ermakova and Anna Rossikhina.